NMLP P-041502 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens · Chapman and Hall, London · 1870

True first is the serial issue in publisher's blue-green pictorial wrappers, six monthly parts (all published), April - September 1870; the wrapper design is by Charles Allston Collins, Dickens's son-in-law, who withdrew through ill health after designing the cover and was replaced as illustrator by Samuel Luke Fildes

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-041502 for "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" by Charles Dickens (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041502, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).